Professional and Student Membership in the Arkansas State Teachers Association includes $ 2,000,000 Professional Liability Insurance coverage — more
protection than other teacher associations provide for a much lower price.
Professional and Student Membership in the Association of American Educators includes $ 2,000,000 Professional Liability Insurance coverage — more
protection than other teacher associations provide for a much lower price.
Not exact matches
In April, the California Court of Appeal overturned the trial court's ruling in Vergara v. California [i], in which a group of families had challenged the constitutionality of state laws governing
teacher tenure [ii](California state law automatically grants tenure to
teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process
protections to
teachers over and above those available to
other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather
than competency in layoff decisions.)
(California state law automatically grants tenure to
teachers after sixteen months, provides extra due process
protections to
teachers over and above those available to
other state workers, and requires schools to use seniority rather
than competency in layoff decisions.)
And if it does, the first time an armed
teacher uses a weapon for something
other than protection, a whole new uproar over school safety will follow, and once again the media will be there, for better and worse.
And I think if we end up in a place... where we have no
protection against firing for reasons
other than competence, teaching — which is already a fairly unattractive occupation because of all the
teacher - bashing that's going on — will become an even more unattractive occupation.
There's a long history in education of
teachers being able to be dismissed — and in fact, that's still the case in many states which don't have due process
protections — for reasons
other than competence.